The International Entity Controller is responsible for the framework governing the Company's legal entity accounting, statutory reporting, and regulatory compliance across all international jurisdictions. This leader ensures the Company's entity structure operates within a disciplined control environment while delivering predictable statutory compliance, scalable reporting processes, and operational transparency across the legal entity structure.
The role also drives modernization of the statutory reporting and legal entity governance model, leveraging automation, standardized processes, and operational metrics to enable a scalable global controllership infrastructure. The role reports into the Vice President, Corporate Controller.
We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin for our hybrid working model.
International Entity Governance
- Own the Company's international legal entity governance framework, ensuring disciplined oversight of all international entities
- Maintain comprehensive entity compliance calendars, statutory governance requirements, and local regulatory obligations across jurisdictions
- Partner with Legal and Tax to support entity formation, restructuring, liquidations, and entity rationalisation initiatives
- Ensure the legal entity structure remains operationally efficient, compliant, and aligned with the Company's global business model
- Partner with the Tax organization to support any applicable income and/or indirect (VAT) tax audits
Statutory Financial Reporting
- Oversee preparation and filing of statutory financial statements and regulatory filings across all international jurisdictions
- Ensure appropriate alignment between U.S. GAAP reporting and local statutory reporting frameworks (IFRS and local GAAP where required)
- Maintain strong oversight of local statutory audit processes, ensuring consistent quality and predictable completion timelines
Intercompany & Cross-Border Accounting
- Partner with the Corporate Accounting / General Ledger team to drive the global framework for intercompany accounting, settlements, and cross-border funding activities
- Partner with Tax to operationalize transfer pricing policies and documentation requirements
- Oversee accounting for capital contributions, dividends, intercompany loans, and other cross-border financing and treasury initiatives
Global Statutory Audit Management
- Coordinate statutory audits globally across all jurisdictions
- Drive standardized audit readiness processes, documentation standards, and audit coordination practices
- Maintain strong relationships with local auditors and external service providers supporting statutory reporting
Legal Entity Structure Optimization
- Evaluate and optimize the Company's global entity footprint, identifying opportunities to simplify structures, reduce compliance burden, and improve operational efficiency
- Support international expansion, acquisitions, and market entry initiatives by establishing appropriate legal entity and reporting structures
- Partner with Corporate Development, Tax, and Legal on post-acquisition entity integration and restructuring
Process Transformation & Automation
- Design and implement scalable statutory reporting processes that reduce manual effort and improve global compliance visibility
- Leverage ERP capabilities, workflow automation, and emerging technologies to modernize the global statutory reporting infrastructure
- Establish standardized templates, reporting frameworks, and governance models across jurisdictions
Operational Metrics & Controllership Infrastructure
Establish a disciplined operating model with clear performance metrics, including:
- Statutory filing timeliness across jurisdictions
- Statutory audit completion timelines
- Intercompany settlement cycle time
- Legal entity rationalization progress
- Compliance risk indicators and remediation tracking
- Develop dashboards that provide clear visibility into global statutory compliance and entity governance risks
Leadership & Cross-Functional Partnership
- Lead a global team responsible for international statutory reporting and legal entity accounting
- Partner closely with Corporate Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Legal, and regional finance leadership to support global operations
- Serve as the controllership subject matter expert for global entity governance and statutory risk management
- 12–15+ years of accounting experience, including leadership of international controllership or statutory reporting functions in a multinational public company
- Deep expertise in U.S. GAAP and international statutory reporting frameworks (IFRS and local GAAP)
- Proven experience managing global statutory audits and multi-jurisdiction compliance programs
- Strong knowledge of intercompany accounting, transfer pricing structures, and global capital flows
- Experience building scalable processes, governance frameworks, and automation initiatives in a multinational environment
- ACCA, CA, or CPA equivalent professional certification preferred
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REQ ID: 1273411621
